InteractiveMesh.org have released a 3D model importer for JavaFX 8.0 (using the new 3D capabilities that are included in JavaFX 8.0). At present it appears that source code is not available, but it would be great to see it.

Speaking of 3D, as I mentioned last week, John Yoon from the JavaFX team at Oracle will be presenting at the Silicon Valley JavaFX Users Group on March 27. As per usual you can attend in person or virtually. What’s cool is that John studied animation at the UCLA Film School, where he received his Master of Fine Arts in Animation/Film. Prior to working at Oracle, John worked in the animation industry as a Character Technical Director at Disney Animation and DreamWorks Animation on such films as “Chicken Little”, “Meet the Robinsons”, “Shrek Forever After”, and “How to Train Your Dragon”.

ScalaFX 1.0.0 M2 was released recently. If you’re interested in building JavaFX-based user interfaces in Scala, then you should definitely check out this library.

Pierre Jansen has released an app he calls ZebraBlender. As he puts it, it is designed to “assist in the creation of more accurate Geo & SpectroBlend waves for Zebra2 & Zebralette.” He goes on to say “Besides allowing you to precisely specify the value of each point in the wave, it also includes a Javascript interpreter which allows you to programatically specify the wave shape and/or wave set.” In short, it uses charts, embedded JavaScript and the new graphics APIs in an interesting way.